Posted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 3, 2015 | Architecture, City Hall, Environment
If you spend any time taking notice of your surroundings in this city, you’ve probably remarked on all the infill housing that has cropped up in recent years. In theory, infill is a good way to retain density in neighbourhoods...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | March 5, 2015 | Film
These are certainly interesting times for Saskatchewan filmmakers. In the wake of everything that has happened in the industry over the past few years, it’s always encouraging to hear about a new crop of people making and...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | January 27, 2015 | News, Sex
Many of you are either very relieved or really annoyed because Regina isn’t getting a strip club. Not yet anyway, because City Council voted down an application to open such a club at 1047 Park St last night. Apparently the vote...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | October 6, 2014 | Food, Life
When I cast my mind back over my childhood and teen years, driving through Ontario’s cottage country with my parents, I can recall signs advertising fall suppers in the little towns that dotted the route northeast of...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | September 3, 2014 | Internet, LGBTQ, Misogyny, News
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending far too much time online this week (and it’s not even over yet). In my defense, much of it was for research, but too often I’ve found myself clicking on links to articles that...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 5, 2014 | Media, News
Even a cursory glance at Canada’s media landscape should be enough to tell you that we’re in big trouble when it comes to getting uncompromised reportage. Media concentration has been a reality here for years and it’s a serious...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | January 20, 2014 | Architecture, Film, Music, News
It’s been a long haul, but following many months of fundraising events featuring Belle Plaine, Andy Shauf, Rah Rah, and others, it looks like the community of Indian Head is going to save its 110 year-old theatre. Indian Head...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | December 23, 2013 | News
As we reported last issue, residents of the Viva Apartments (2141 Rae St) were issued a Notice to Vacate by their landlords last month and were informed that they’d have to leave their homes by the end of January. Late...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | November 21, 2013 | Film
If you’re starting to feel a little football-intolerant (and I’m not saying you should), you might want to take a break before the big party really begins, and check out Special Ed at the RPL Theatre (conveniently...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | November 12, 2013 | Film
The Regina Public Library Theatre will bid a teary goodbye to film this evening. They’re getting a new digital projection system, so it’s the last time they’ll run the old 35mm projectors. To celebrate – and give a...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | October 21, 2013 | Food
It’s fowl supper season! I’m a bit slow off the hop on this, as the season has been upon us for some time already – but I’m here to tell you that it’s not too late to get in on some fowl supper goodness. Last night, for...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | October 10, 2013 | Film
Do you love movies? Do you like watching TV? Did you know that, in the time between shooting your favourite television show and it winding up on screen, every shot you see has gone through a careful selection process? When it’s...
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